Hacking the Sky - Society of Environmental Journalists

Hacking the Sky - Society of Environmental

HackingtheSky Geo-Engineering Could Save the Planet… And in the Process Sacrifice the World by Jason Mark EARTH IS BUSTED. Like a supercomputer whose elaborate code has developed a few bugs, the core operating systems ofthe planet are frayed: Ocean populations are collapsing, forests are disappearing, soils have become thin. Perhaps most worrisome, the globe’s atmosphere, the ecosystem on which all other ecosystems depend, is overheating. The machinery of life appears to have malfunctioned. 40 WWW.EARTHISLAND.ORG